Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Obama, who was one of the last heads of state from a major emitter country to confirm attendance in Copenhagen, had originally planned to attend an early session, leaving final negotiations to Cabinet officials as well as negotiators from the State Department. We need him negotiating face-to-face with Hu Jintao and other leaders.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

President Obama signed a Memorandum directing his Administration to conduct a Quadrennial Energy Review (QER). This first QER will focus on the development of a comprehensive strategy for the infrastructure involved in transporting, transmitting, and delivering energy.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 30, 2014

Once again, President Barack Obama used the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night to raise the issue of natural gas vehicles as a way of promoting energy independence and cutting the impact of climate change. In his talk, Obama urged the U.S.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 11, 2013

As evil and damaging as racism is to individuals and our society overall, the Climate LiarDeniers’s evil far exceeds the scope of race haters because the damage is done to everyone at a global level of catastrophe that no racial supremacist ever dreamed of. . org Bill McKibben climate Do the Math politics science'

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I voted for Barack Obama and I worked hard campaigning to get him elected. After the jump I’ll share what I said on Climate Progress about it yesterday, and you can read Bill McKibben’s comment there too. org Bill McKibben Climate Progress Copenhagen Joe Romm President Obama. Not even close.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. Meeting the goal of cutting US oil dependence depends largely on two things, Obama said: finding and producing more oil at home, and reducing dependence on oil with cleaner alternative fuels and greater efficiency. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

The two leaders discussed practical ways the United States and Canada could encourage the development of clean energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gases and combat climate change. What we’ve heard during the last couple of days from President Obama is he’s clearly speaking Alberta’s language,” Stelmach added.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

President Obama agrees with this determination and the eight federal agencies consulted under Executive Order 13337 have accepted it. ”. The critical factor in my determination was this: moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combatting climate change.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

President Obama agrees with this determination and the eight federal agencies consulted under Executive Order 13337 have accepted it. ”. The critical factor in my determination was this: moving forward with this project would significantly undermine our ability to continue leading the world in combatting climate change.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2015

Over the past 60 years, climate change has caused the Alaskan Arctic to warm twice as rapidly as the rest of the United States, and will continue to transform the Arctic as its consequences grow more severe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The Obama Administration will delay a decision on approving the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada until sometime in 2013—i.e., Among the relevant issues that would be considered are environmental concerns (including climate change), energy security, economic impacts, and foreign policy. after the US elections in November 2012.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Their Climate Emergency Response Team went into action at the scene of the crime – The US Chamber of Horrors – I mean Commerce – HQ in DC. View the climate crime scene photos after the jump. Greenpeace Activists place Climate Crime Banners on the exterior of the U.S. I sure wish I could have been there!

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Creative Greenius

JULY 9, 2009

on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming. Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. A federal prosecutor says a dozen people were taken into custody on Wednesday after the incident. House last month.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Obama's choice for Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, apparently can't be faulted for his dedication to dealing with climate change. Just when it seemed the overhyped promise of biofuels was diminishing, it may prove to have a second life under Obama. Is Steven Chu BFF With BP?

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

president Barack Obama will propose a tax of $10 per barrel on oil in the 2017 budget he will submit to Congress next week. You have to give the man credit for vision.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Diplomats were recalled from their hotels to block the move, and Rasmussen instead called a brief adjournment following intervention by UK Energy and Climate Secretary Ed Miliband, as well as Australian and US officials. by Jack Rosebro. The relative valuation of potential emissions offsets (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Although most countries have already revealed their opening emissions reduction proposals, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer pointed out Thursday that “ we still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action. by Jack Rosebro.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33 To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path. —President Obama.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

US President Barack Obama said the US will cut net greenhouse gas emissions in the US by 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2025. The Administration said the United States will submit its 2025 target to the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an “Intended Nationally Determined Contribution” no later than the first quarter of 2015.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 18, 2009

President Obama’s on Air Force One flying home from Copenhagen as I write this and while the final details of the side deal he cut with a handful of countries outside the UN process aren’t fully known yet, one thing is already certain. The deal he negotiated isn’t ambitious, it isn’t fair and it isn’t binding.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2012

These Big Data projects will improve our understanding of issues such as species response to climate change, earthquake recurrence rates, and the next generation of ecological indicators. National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health - Core. Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science & Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2015

The solicitation calls for the formation of a US-based consortium to work with Chinese counterparts to bolster collaborative efforts to help ensure energy, water, and environmental security and combat climate change. term threat of climate change. The consortium will be funded with $12.5 million DOE support and $12.5

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The EPA recently announced it will roll back the Clean Power Plan, one of former President Obama's milestone efforts to fight climate change, and now the agency plans to axe another rule limiting emissions. Next on the chopping block is a regulation that limits emissions from large trucks and their components.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

NextGen Climate America. Battery costs exceeded $500/kWh when President Obama launched his EV Everywhere Grand Challenge goal of making EVs that are as affordable and convenient for the American family as gasoline-powered vehicles, and low-cost, high performance batteries are a key component of the strategy to attain the President’s goal.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2013

The document is a detailed draft technical review of potential environmental impacts associated with the segment of the pipeline in the US, including: impacts from construction, impacts from potential spills, impacts related to climate change, and economic impacts. What Keystone XL would carry.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2010

President Obama’s Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), co-chaired by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE), delivered a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming the barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2015

The United States submitted its target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Last November, President Obama and President Xi of China, announced the respective post-2020 climate targets for the United States and China. per year on average between 2020 and 2025.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. And we will put Americans to work making our homes and buildings more efficient so that we can save billions of dollars on our energy bills.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The US reached separate agreements with the G-20 and with China to address the rapid growth in the use and release of climate-damaging hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). Left unabated, HFC emissions could grow to nearly 20% of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, a serious climate mitigation concern.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2019

As states take the lead in confronting climate change, a flagship policy is often Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS). The increasing urgency of climate challenge means that the case for ruthlessly seeking out the least expensive reductions in carbon emissions is rapidly strengthening.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

WATCH THIS : These same grotesqueries of public service are responsible for selling out our environment and our climate in exchange for the support and money they get from industries that cause the most global warming.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 2, 2011

228) that would bar the federal government from implementing any law or regulation related to climate change, whether it has to do with cutting industrial greenhouse gas emissions or not. Barrasso, a rightwing whack job from Wyoming, introduced a bill (S.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Alliance for Climate Protection, Al Gore's group, has taken another step toward promoting plug-in cars (all electric cars and plug-in hybrids) with its RePower America campaign. Let's hope Al Gore's been saying as much to President Obama (doesn't that sound great!).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2016

Freight hauling by trucks is a significant source of energy consumption and pollution around the world, and the fuel savings promised by the technology advances under this CERC-TRUCK program will help to combat climate change while advancing low-carbon economies.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 21, 2009

When our South Bay 350 Climate Action Group asked for Congresswoman Jane Harman’s help with our October 24, International Day of Climate Action we got it. I’ve also been pounding away about the climate fate of the vulnerable small island states and sea level rise for many months now. Thank you Congresswoman Harman.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. Short-lived climate pollutants.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

In the 5 topics areas of the FOA, the proposed project will focus on cost-effective measures to improve the on-road freight efficiency of medium- and heavy-duty trucks by greater than 50% (compared to the 2016 baseline truck) to reduce transportation’s fuel use and climate change impacts. Background. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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